Daily Briefing: Monday 10th January

Capcom are teasing some Street Fighter news

It looks like Capcom officially kicked off the 35th Anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise with a new logo and series of mysterious tweets over the weekend. The logo in question is nothing overly interesting - a 35th Anniversary artwork where the “35th” is stylised after Street Fighter’s iconic logo - but it was the accompanying tweets that are worth a double take.

• Capcom’s USA Twitter account posted the logo alongside a pretty standard “here comes a new anniversary! Cheers to 35 years of epic fights, fireballs and iconic rivalries” message, but it was the Japanese Twitter account that teased some future projects. That tweet concludes by advising fans to “please look forward to the future development of the Street Fighter series.” Street Fighter’s 30th Anniversary was back in 2017 and Capcom celebrated that one with the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection - a compilation of 12 arcade titles. What do they have planned for this year’s big one?

Dying Light 2 will apparently take 500 hours to complete

This rather bizarre claim comes courtesy of the game’s official Twitter account, which posted a little graphic explaining that it would take at least 500 hours to 100% the game, roughly the same time as walking from Warsaw to Madrid. The initial tweet drew a lot of highly sceptical responses, which prompted the account to release a few clarifying statement saying that while it should indeed take over 500 hours to see everything in the game, a “regular player” should be able to finish the main story and sidequests alongside “quite a lot of exploring” in “less that 100 hours.”

• While this initial tweet (and to a lesser extent the several subsequent posts backing it up) was obviously intended to illustrated the large amount of content in Dying Light 2, presumably as a means of ensuring players that it will very much be worth their money, the prevailing sentiment online has been exhaustion. Modern AAA games are already an enormous time commitment and, while many players are absolutely happy to make that commitment, it’s usually on their terms. Pouring 500 hours into one of your favourite games essentially by accident is very different to going into a game knowing that it’ll take 500 hours to complete.

Elden Ring 2 is now the most wishlisted game on Steam

Staying with Dying Light 2 for a moment, it was just replaced by Elden Ring as the most-wishlisted game on Steam. It feels strange to think that this is the first time that FromSoftware’s hotly anticipated new outing has taken the top spot, but apparently a lot of folks are excited for Dying Light 2. It spent all of 2021 at the top of the wishlist list, having taken over from Cyberpunk 2077 following its launch in December 2022.

• We’re really barreling ahead toward Elden Ring’s February 25th launch date, so players don’t have long to wait to get their hands on what must be one of the most anticipated games ever. In case you’re wondering, the top five most wishlisted games on Steam are currently: Elden Ring, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Party Animals, God of War, and Hollow Knight: Silksong. The Day Before, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl, Starfield, and Frostpunk 2 make up the rest of the top ten. Quite a varied bunch, actually.